Posted by IshigamiI like the animations but couldn't they smooth the sprites a little more? They look rather rough for HD tbh.

Yeah, I'm not sure what they were thinking. The game scales/zooms in on the action at times, and the sprites look a bit of a mess. They should have drawn them at the proper resolution for the full zoom.

I still think it looks fantastic though. Compared to the previous KOF/FF sprites, this is a huge upgrade.

It's hard to form really deep impressions of a game with such brief exposure to it. The thing was $1 per credit and I wasn't about to pump a lot of cash into an arcade cabinet to learn a game that would be available shortly on the home front. What I did experience was pretty cool though. The general gameplay was snappy and responsive. I was pretty unaware of stuff like the critical counter system, and since the poster explaining the game above the cab was in Japanese, none of that was immediate apparent.

I played mostly as Terry and Joe, and mixed up my third pick to experiment a little. It's fun.

The sprites are definitely more pixellated than I thought from earlier looks at this game but it's still a night/ day difference compared to the older games and hardly a major problem. Bottom line is it's nothing that is going to upset the fanbase and anyone but the fussiest newcomers...